Human Capacity

I tend to be optimistic, to a fault some would say. However, I like to think of myself as an informed optimist. You see, I have it on good information that people have great potential. I believe in myself, not because I feel that I’m better than others, but because I believe that the efforts of man to glorify God and be what he created us to be is something worth believing in.

God created us for something; to glorify Him. Even if you’re not on the faith journey yet, God has designed you to bring glory to Him. That’s why we observe the uniqueness in each other. It’s why you comment to your friend, that they’re the best at whatever it is they do. Talents, gifts, strengths and abilities have been given to us to fulfill our part of the work of glorifying God.

I’ve met people who felt they had no gift, and in the past I’ve kinda fallen into the plug and play method of helping people determine their design, but what I’ve found is that people don’t match up against inventories in a close way, but they line up with their design like a hand in glove. Finding your design is one of the most important acts of worship you can achieve.

I was reading in Genesis today and had a reaffirmation of human capacity. “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

This is the story of the tower of Babel. Men start making bricks, mortar and building a tower that will make a name for themselves, because it reached the heavens. It was so impressive that Genesis says God came to look at it. His response? That they’re going to accomplish it. Humans have amazing capacity to actually accomplish anything they set their collective minds to. So God confused their languages so they couldn’t collaborate.

Now think of the last century. There has been such a dramatic acceleration in discovery and accomplishment: Flight, Space, Communications, Auto, Computer, Internet, and Medicine. I think these advancements are a result of a common language redeveloping. We could make arguments for the applied use of Mathematical language that enables scientists and engineers all over the world to understand a common language. Certainly there is a shared Binary language that powers computers like the one I’m using now, and the connection to the world wide web that allows people from around the world to collaborate with my thoughts.

It’s an interesting time that we’re living in. If our purposes are in glorifying God than the capacity of man has its greatest place. If we’re building towers to make names for ourselves, I wonder what would happen if we woke up one morning to blogs that read, “llksjfaoif lkj liwheurrwnnn n a hdd.”?

--Enb